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...Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., 29, seagoing son of famed U.S. Yachtsman Corny Shields: the International One-Design Class world sailing championship, on Long Island Sound. Skipper of the 12-meter Columbia in last year's America's Cup trials, Shields won the world title by scoring back-to-back victories at the start of the six-race series, building up such a lead that he could finish sixth in the last two races and still win handily...
...speed and grace are not all that set him apart from the rest of the trick skiers in the world. He has placed in his run the very difficult back-to-back 360 degree turns off the wake on both two and one skis. He has perfected another seldom-seen trick which he might use in the Nationals this coming week-end to run his total for that tournament up to 3795. That very difficult maneuver is the 360 turn off the wake with the bar held...
...interesting first is back-to-back programming, exemplified by a 90-minute ABC show titled Arrest and Trial broken into two 45-minute parts. A different criminal each week is captured by Detective Ben Gazzara in Arrest, then sprung by Defense Attorney Chuck Conners in Trial, thus effectively canceling out 90 minutes of effort...
...game began auspiciously. With two gone in Harvard's half of the first, Terry Bartolet and Tom Stephenson hit back-to-back singles. Tom Gilmor then stepped to the plate and hit a screaming drive through the box--just past the outstretched glove of the Quaker secondbaseman. Bartolet scored from third on the play. The joy was short-lived, however, as the Crimson's sloppy fielding becan to show and the Quakers picked up one run in the top half of the second, and took the lead in the top of the third...
Gargle, Rattle. Dwellers in the new "luxury" barracks in many U.S. cities have discovered that the bathroom is no longer humanity's last haven of privacy. Built back-to-back in most buildings for reasons of economy, with thin walls, echoing acoustics and interconnecting ventilators, bathrooms have turned into monitoring booths. Whether they want to or not, tenants soon become all too familiar with the showering, gargling and flushing schedules of their neighbors...